Crews spent Monday shoveling mud out from damaged homes, pulling cars out of the debris and removing boulders in the aftermath of flash floods that struck Southern California mountains a day before, killing one man and damaging scores of homes.

And Amber Sawyer, a resident of Forest Falls in the San Bernardino Mountains, could only reflect on the weekend storms that brought floods to her community and several others from San Bernardino to Los Angeles counties.

“It felt like our house was going to wash away,” Sawyer said. “Mud, boulders and water just kept hitting the house and shaking it like a bomb was going off.”

Thousands were stranded Monday morning following the weekend stormsd.

Joo Hwan Lee, 48, of El Segundo, was killed in Mt. Baldy Village, which straddles the LA/San Bernardino county line, after the car in which he was driving was caught in rushing waters.

Lee’s white Toyota Prius was wedged in Bear Creek among boulders and a log. The windshield was shattered and the car was full of dirt.

The driver had been parked Sunday in Angela Batistelli’s driveway when she returned home with groceries. Hikers frequently park there and she asked the driver to move.

Rain was falling hard when she carried some bags up to her house. Later, she saw the Prius down the street; its tail lights were surrounded by water and then it was gone in the roar of water filling the canyon.

Batistelli’s car, a Toyota Echo, also washed away. It was found sticking straight up; its front end buried in the silt-filled streambed. Her 250-gallon propane tank was torn from the house and carried down the street.

The road leads the way to a hiking trail up Mount San Antonio, known as Mount Baldy. At 10,068 feet, the barren peak is one of the tallest in Southern California and is popular among hikers and skiers.

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A family member of Lee said in Korean through a translator that the family does not know what happened and so was not in a position to elaborate on the incident. The family member said they are grieving Lee’s loss.

“Please respect our privacy,” he said.

Officials said some areas, including Mt. Baldy, received 4 inches of rain per hour.

Michael Scully, a 30-year resident of the village, said he’s never seen anything like the torrential rains and flooding that pushed debris throughout his property and under his vintage off-road vehicle collection.

Bear Creek, which was inundated by flood waters, runs behind his home. On Sunday, Scully witnessed an unoccupied black Audi bobbing up and down the creek where it came to rest under a nearby bridge.

“It’s scary,” Scully said. “I mean the water rises so fast. And it’s not like you had an opportunity to do anything.”

David Reed, a neighbor of Scully’s who lives on the creek bed said major floods behind his home happen once a decade, but the last major flood occurred in the 1960s.

“It was severe, but fortunately there were very few homes that were severely damaged,” Reed said.

Camp Baldy, a predecessor to the current village, was destroyed by the floods of 1938.

By early afternoon Monday, authorities said more than 30 homes had been damaged across Southern California mountains, and at least a dozen of them so severely that they were uninhabitable.

Mount Baldy Fire Chief Bill Stead said that some 25 houses were damaged and six of those were uninhabitable.

And at Forest Falls, about 50 miles to the east, officials has said between six and eight homes had similar damage.

Stead said the most significant damage in his tiny resort town popular with skiers and hikers is in the Goat Hill area, where a rockslide buried some homes up to their roofs.

In the Angeles National Forest, a group of four or five people and a dog were airlifted to safety.

Accuweather forecasts for Inland Empire call for mostly sunny skies for the next several days.

San Bernardino County officials were going house to house to survey damage brought on by the summer storm. Among the stranded were about 500 children and chaperones who were bused to the campground Sunday for a day trip, officials said.

The west entrance into Oak Glen, another mountain community in the San Bernardino mountains, about 15 miles east of Yucaipa, is open and residents are able to enter and exit the area.

No injuries had been reported and a shelter-in-place advisement has been lifted, CalFire officials said via email Monday morning.

Rescuers removed a disabled man from his Forest Falls home after water and mud started entering his residence.

Another resident climbed a tree to escape debris flowing into his home.

Early Sunday afternoon, San Bernardino Swift Water Rescue firefighters rescued two transients who were swept away by the rain water in the flood control channel at Arrowhead and Central Avenues.

Both were rescued and didn’t require hospitalization, officials said.

Highland also reported flooding late Sunday when City Creek overflowed and flooded Baseline. No injuries were reported, according to a Calfire news release, though a few residents were displaced due to standing water after the rain subsided and were connected with Red Cross for shelter.

City officials on Monday morning were surveying the city for further damage.

Redlands officials activated its Emergency Operations Center during the downpour.